Veronica M. DiBello

Philadelphia, PA

About Veronica M. DiBello

Veronica is a dedicated attorney focusing her practice on representing catastrophically injured victims in complex personal injury cases. Veronica earned her Juris Doctor from Drexel University’s Kline School of Law where she competed on the law school’s Alternative Dispute Resolution team and served as Co-President of the National Lawyers Guild. Before attending law school, Veronica worked in all aspects of child protection for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, where she conducted child abuse and neglect investigations and managed foster care and adoption cases in litigation.

During law school, she interned with the Special Victims Unit of the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey, assisting detectives and prosecutors on cases involving human trafficking, sex crimes, and crimes against children and completed a year-long internship with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor. Veronica further developed her legal skills as a Certified Legal Intern during a year-long clinical with Drexel University’s Andy & Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic, where she resolved tangled title and property tax issues affecting Philadelphia residents. Following law school, Veronica served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Pamela M. Snyder, J.S.C., in the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky

These results are credited to Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Miami, FL · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.

Philadelphia, PA (federal) · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A Montgomery County jury awarded the estate of Ellen Gregory Robb $124.26 million in November 2014 against her husband, a former Penn economics professor who killed her in 2006 and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Of the total, $100 million was punitive damages. The proceeds were for the couple's daughter, the estate's beneficiary. The award stood after Robb's post-trial challenge, though collection was limited to his retirement and investment assets.

Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Norristown, PA · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.

Atlantic County Superior Court, New Jersey · 2007Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

Drexel University Kline School of Law
J.D.
Rutgers University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Jersey

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.